The state, the financial system, and economic modernization / edited by Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly, and Gabriel Tortella

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface 1 Introduction: comparative historical perspectives / Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly, Gabriel Tortella 2 Politics and banking in revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Francois Crouzet 3 Belgian banking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the Societe Generale and the Generale de Banque (1822-1997) / Herman van der Wee, Monique van der Wee-Verbreyt 4 Banking liberalization in England and Wales, 1826-1844 / P. L. Cottrell, Lucy Newton 5 Banking in Europe in the nineteenth century: the role of the central bank / Forrest Capie 6 Public policy, capital markets and the supply of industrial finance in nineteenth-century Germany / Richard Tilly 7 The role of banks and government in Spanish economic development, 1850-1935 / Gabriel Tortella 8 Central banking and German-style mixed banking in Italy, 1893/5-1914: from coexistence to cooperation / Peter Hertner 9 State power and finance in Russia, 1802-1917: the Credit Office of the Finance Ministry and governmental control over credit institutions / Boris Anan'ich 10 The origins of banking in Argentina / Roberto Cortes Conde 11 Shaping the US financial system, 1690-1913: the dominant role of public finance / Richard Sylla 12 Cosmopolitan finance in the 1920s: New York's emergence as an international financial centre / Mira Wilkins Index